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Scott Pilgrim vs. Manhattan

by September 13th, 2010 Culture » Film and TV » Society »

I’ve seen Woody Allen‘s Manhattan about a dozen times since I first watched it two years ago. At about the fifth viewing I began to have a dread about watching this damn film again, every time the opening montage began, but this feeling usually subsided by the time Ike Davis said that bit about courage: […]

Waving My Dick in the Wind – The Non-Nudist Freedom-Loving Nude Beach Review

by August 19th, 2010 Politics » Society » Culture » Travel »

There will come a time when everybody Who is lonely will be free… To sing & dance & love (dance and love) There will come a time when every evil That we know will be an evil… That we can rise above (rise above) Who cares if you’re so poor you can’t afford To buy […]

Gogol Bordello vs. Primus vs. Meat on the Williamsburg Waterfront

by July 31st, 2010 Culture » Society » Culture » Sounds »

Gogol Bordello rocked out the Hayek-inspired “Not A Crime”, commenting, surely, on free-markets and free-minds, then spent the rest of the show trying to sell people the shit they don’t want to buy…the new album. There’s too many fucking singers, like some sad after-school multi-cultural feel good pallette…that, yes, feels good, but sounds like shit. […]

The Obscenity of Obscenity Laws

by July 17th, 2010 Culture » Politics » Society »

Here is a call to outlaw Obscenity Laws on the grounds that they are the only obscenity. Full Disclosure: I don’t feel that I am defined by these things…but I do like sex…and I do like porn… …and for me, the question of whether something is artistic or not is not relevant. In less controversial […]

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